大壯 → 旅

Commentary

Thunder above heaven drives the hunter eastward in pursuit, but the rabbit flees behind him — always in the wrong direction. His weapons are sharp but not sharp enough, and he returns alone, empty-handed. The verse captures the frustration of the chase that never connects: effort expended, terrain covered, quarry glimpsed but never caught. From Great Power to the Wanderer, fire burns atop the mountain in Lu, the image of the traveler who must keep moving. The transformation reveals the hunter's deeper predicament: he has become the wanderer himself. Having failed to capture what he sought, he is now a figure of displacement — all that power directed outward has left him homeless, possessing nothing, a stranger on the very ground he hunted across.